[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by tony adams

but out of the box - with respect to a good system - the front end is - well crap, had a look at your board and whilst not my taste i can see all the work there and it looks good

my problem was that i was learning as i built and some hacks just happened with no thought about how i did it,

next time i will be a lot wiser and keep notes and docs, but we live and learn, have tried 'beyond compare' and as you say it is not perfect

but need to do something as 3.0.3 is too old for comfort security wise,

this is my place

http://www.diplocks.co.uk/witterings/index.php?

That's how I was with hacks...learning as I went. I have a test board on 3.5, and am making progress, but now even that is out of date as it's 3.5.1, it's turning into a never ending spiral of upgrades and site building that I don't really have the time or the skill to do.

As for your site, I'd get yourself up to 3.0.11 as soon as you can...although it's a pain, it's not anywhere as bad as going to 3.5.....judicial use of Beyond Compare will preserve the vast majority of your hacks, do it on a test board first and you should find *most* stuff will still work.....the bits that don't you can usually mess about with the code, mnually comparing the old and new files, and just about get it working.

Templates are a little trickier, though you can use Beyond Compare on those too, in theory, bit of copying and pasting needed though.